🏆 Day 7 of 7

Mini SEO Audit & 30-Day Action Plan

Put everything together. Audit your own website with AI and walk away with a personalized 30-day SEO action plan.

⏱ ~60 minutes
📚 7 lessons
🤖 3 AI prompts
🧠 5-question quiz
1
Fundamentals
2
Keywords
3
On-Page
4
Technical
5
Content
6
Off-Page
7
Audit
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Today's Big Idea

You've completed 6 days of SEO education. Today you turn all of that knowledge into a concrete action plan for your own website. A good SEO audit tells you exactly what to fix, in what order, with the highest impact.

A full professional SEO audit costs $500-5,000. With AI and free tools, you can do an 80% version yourself right now. And you'll have a prioritized action plan that you can start executing today.

🎯 By the end of Day 7: You'll have audited your website across technical, on-page, content, and off-page dimensions. You'll have a personalized 30-day action plan. And you'll be ready to start executing it immediately.

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Core Concept 1: What is an SEO Audit?

An SEO audit is a systematic review of your website to identify SEO issues and opportunities. It answers four questions:

  1. Can Google crawl and index my site? (Technical)
  2. Are my pages optimized? (On-Page)
  3. Is my content good enough to rank? (Content)
  4. Do other people trust my site? (Off-Page)

A professional audit costs $500-5,000 and takes a consultant weeks to deliver. You're going to do a 90% version in one day with AI.

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Core Concept 2: The 4-Part Audit Framework

PART 1: Technical Health: Can Google crawl and index your site?

  • Core Web Vitals score (PageSpeed Insights)
  • Number of indexed pages (site:yourdomain.com)
  • Coverage errors (Google Search Console)
  • Mobile-friendliness (mobile-friendly test)
  • HTTPS status (is your site secure?)

PART 2: On-Page Audit: Are your pages optimized?

  • Title tags (50-60 chars, includes keyword)
  • Meta descriptions (150-160 chars, click-worthy)
  • H1 tags (one per page, keyword-inclusive)
  • Image alt text coverage
  • Internal linking structure (does it make sense?)
  • URL structure (short, descriptive, keyword-inclusive where appropriate)

PART 3: Content Audit: Is your content good enough to rank?

  • Pages with thin content (< 300 words)
  • Pages with no clear target keyword
  • Duplicate content issues
  • E-E-A-T signals present (author bios, citations, etc.)
  • Top-performing content to update and promote

PART 4: Off-Page: Is your site trusted?

  • Current backlink count and quality (GSC Links tab)
  • Brand mention monitoring (Google Alerts set up?)
  • Competitor backlink comparison

Core Concept 3: How to Prioritize Fixes

Not all fixes are created equal. Use this impact/effort matrix to decide what to do first:

High Impact + Low Effort = Do Immediately
These are your "quick wins": title tags, meta descriptions, sitemap submission, fixing broken links. Do these first.

High Impact + High Effort = Plan and Schedule
Major content rewrites, technical infrastructure changes, large-scale link building. These take time but are critical.

Low Impact + Low Effort = Batch Together
Image optimizations, minor rewording, updating old dates. Do these when you have 30 minutes to spare.

Low Impact + High Effort = Skip or Defer
Don't waste time here. Move on.

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Core Concept 4: Tools for Ongoing Monitoring

Google Search Console: Weekly check of rankings and errors. Look at the Performance tab to see which keywords drive clicks. Check Coverage for new errors.

Google Analytics 4: Monthly traffic review. Track sessions, users, and conversions. Does organic traffic go up month-to-month? Which pages convert best?

Google Alerts: Real-time brand monitoring. Set up alerts for your brand name, main keywords, and competitors. Gets notified when you're mentioned online.

Rank Tracking (Free): Google Search Console's Performance tab is free rank tracking. For more advanced tracking, try Rank Ranger, SE Ranking, or SerpWatch.

Cadence: Check GSC weekly, Analytics monthly, and maintain a link-building calendar. Set calendar reminders to stay consistent.

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Prompt Lab: 3 Most Powerful Audit Prompts

Prompt #1: Full AI-Powered Website Audit

Act as a senior SEO consultant conducting a comprehensive audit of my website. My website: [WEBSITE URL AND DESCRIPTION]. My target audience: [DESCRIBE]. My main keywords: [LIST 3-5 KEYWORDS]. Audit all 4 areas below and give me specific, actionable findings: TECHNICAL: What technical issues typically affect sites like mine? What should I check first? ON-PAGE: For my target keywords, what on-page elements are most critical for me to optimize? CONTENT: What content gaps likely exist for a site targeting my keywords? What should I create first? OFF-PAGE: What's a realistic link building strategy for a site at my stage? End with a prioritized list of the top 10 SEO actions I should take, ordered by impact.

Fill in your website URL, description, audience, and keywords

Prompt #2: Competitor Gap Analysis

I want to understand why [COMPETITOR DOMAIN] is outranking me for the keyword '[TARGET KEYWORD]'. Based on what's typical for competitive SEO analysis: 1. What on-page factors might explain their advantage? 2. What content depth/format do they likely have that I might be missing? 3. What types of backlinks do sites like theirs typically acquire? 4. What are 3 ways I could realistically compete with them in the next 90 days with a limited budget? 5. Are there any keyword opportunities they might be missing that I could capture?

Analyze your top competitors to find gaps you can exploit

Prompt #3: Build Your Personalized 30-Day Plan

Based on everything I've learned about my website, create a personalized 30-day SEO action plan. My website: [URL AND DESCRIPTION] My current situation: [DESCRIBE — new site / existing site with traffic / no GSC setup yet / etc.] My main goals: [e.g., rank for local keywords / grow organic traffic / sell more products] My available time: [X hours per week] Tools I have access to: [list free tools you have] Create a day-by-day or week-by-week plan that's realistic for my time budget. For each action: explain WHY it matters, HOW to do it, and WHAT success looks like. Prioritize by impact.

This becomes your roadmap for the next month

Practice Task: Run Your Full Mini Audit Today

⚡ Today's Action

Complete Your Full Mini Audit

Follow these 7 steps and complete them in the next 60 minutes:

  1. Google Search Console: Note your top 5 ranking keywords and 3 biggest coverage errors
  2. PageSpeed Insights: Run on your homepage — note your Core Web Vitals scores (LCP, FID, CLS)
  3. Indexed Pages: Do site:yourdomain.com in Google — count indexed pages
  4. On-Page Check: Review your top 3 pages for title tags, H1s, and meta descriptions
  5. AI Audit: Use Prompt #1 to get an AI audit of your full situation
  6. 30-Day Plan: Use Prompt #3 to build your personalized action plan
  7. Prioritize: Write down your top 5 priority actions with deadlines

Target: By end of Day 7, you have a complete audit and a prioritized action plan. Tomorrow you start executing.

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Common Beginner Mistakes

After 7 days of learning, the most dangerous moment is right now - when you know enough to do things wrong with confidence. These are the audit and planning mistakes that waste months of effort.

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Trying to fix everything at once

An audit reveals 30 issues and beginners try to tackle all 30 simultaneously, make scattered progress on all of them, and finish none. The impact/effort matrix exists for a reason. Pick your top 5 high-impact fixes, complete them fully, then move on. Finished beats perfect-in-progress every time.

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Auditing obsessively instead of executing

Some beginners run 5 different audits, compare results, and spend weeks in analysis mode. One clear audit + consistent execution beats infinite audit loops. Run your audit, build your plan, and spend 80% of your remaining time executing. Re-audit in 90 days to measure progress.

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Not setting a baseline before making changes

If you don't record where you started, you can't measure whether your changes worked. Before any optimization, screenshot your GSC Performance data, note your Core Web Vitals scores, and record your current ranking positions for 5-10 keywords. Without a baseline, you're flying blind.

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Giving up after 4-6 weeks of "no results"

SEO results take 3-6 months to materialize for most changes. Algorithm updates happen on a rolling basis. Google has to recrawl your pages, reprocess them, and then re-rank them against every competing page. The beginners who see results are the ones who kept executing consistently for 90+ days without abandoning the strategy.

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Chasing tactics instead of building a foundation

Social media, forums, and YouTube are full of "SEO hacks" and "ranking tricks." Most are outdated, over-hyped, or site-specific edge cases. The fundamentals you learned this week - good technical health, keyword-focused content, E-E-A-T signals, white-hat links - are what Google actually rewards long-term. Trust the foundation.

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Your First 7-Day Action Plan Template

Use this as your starting framework for the week immediately after completing the challenge. Fill in your specific tasks from your audit findings. The goal is one meaningful SEO action per day - no more, no less.

Day
Focus Area + Task
Time Needed
Day 1
Technical - Fix your #1 GSC error
Log into Google Search Console, go to Coverage, find your top error, and resolve it. Common fix: redirect a 404 or fix a noindex tag.
30-45 min
Day 2
On-Page - Rewrite 3 title tags
Pick your top 3 pages. Rewrite each title tag: 50-60 characters, keyword near the front, compelling and click-worthy. Update in your CMS.
30 min
Day 3
Content - Expand your thinnest page
Identify your most important page under 600 words. Use Prompt #2 from Day 5 to expand it by 400-600 words. Add one internal link to a related page.
60-90 min
Day 4
Technical - PageSpeed quick wins
Run PageSpeed Insights on your homepage. Find the top 2 "Opportunities." Implement the easiest fix - usually image compression or removing unused CSS.
45-60 min
Day 5
Off-Page - Find 5 guest post targets
Search Google for "[your niche] + write for us." Find 5 sites with real audiences. Check their DA with Moz Link Explorer. Build your outreach list.
45 min
Day 6
On-Page - Add alt text to all images
Go through your top 5 pages. Every image without descriptive alt text needs one. Describe the image specifically - avoid generic labels like "image1.jpg."
30 min
Day 7
Review + Plan Week 2
Review what you completed this week. Check GSC for any changes in Coverage. Use Prompt #3 to build your personalized Week 2 plan based on what you learned.
30 min

💡 Make it yours: This template uses generic tasks. Use Prompt #3 from the Prompt Lab above to generate a personalized version based on your actual site type, audit findings, and available time per week. The AI-generated plan will be far more specific than any generic template.

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Day 7 Quiz

5 questions · Instant feedback · Pass at 60% to unlock your Day 7 badge

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Day 7 Checklist

Click each item to mark it done. Your progress is saved automatically.

0/5 tasks done

  • ✅ Ran PageSpeed Insights on my homepage and noted scores
  • ✅ Checked Google Search Console for current rankings and errors
  • ✅ Audited title tags and H1s on my top 5 pages
  • ✅ Used the AI audit prompt to get my full site assessment
  • ✅ Passed the Day 7 quiz (60%+)
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You Did It!

7 Days · 7 Lessons · 1 Complete SEO Foundation

7
Days Completed
24+
Core Concepts
Top 10%
SEO Knowledge

You've learned more about search engine optimization than 90% of website owners. You understand how Google crawls, indexes, and ranks - and you have a real action plan to execute.

Most people read about SEO and do nothing. You finished the challenge. That already puts you ahead.

Skills Earned This Week

🔍 SEO Fundamentals 🔑 Keyword Research 📄 On-Page SEO ⚙️ Technical SEO ✍️ Content Writing 🔗 Link Building 🏆 SEO Auditing

What to Do Next

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AI Prompt Library

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